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Last week witnessed a wave of bold assertions on social media claiming that the Union Home Ministry, under Amit Shah, has quietly executed 18 sweeping decisions in Jammu & Kashmir within just ten days. If true, these moves would represent a seismic shift in power dynamics, governance structures, and even the region’s demographic architecture. Yet…
When Donald Trump declared that Kirana Hills in Pakistan was poised for fresh nuclear tests, it wasn’t a moment of strategic clarity—it was a spectacle of confusion, fear-mongering, and hypocrisy. What exactly is he trying to achieve? And whom is he trying to scare? Trump insists that Pakistan is about to conduct underground nuclear tests….
In the run-up to the crucial Jubilee Hills bypoll, Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has chosen a deeply controversial political script — questioning the Indian Army’s recent Operation Sindoor, a successful counter-terror action across the border that the nation widely saluted. Linking national security with local electoral arithmetic is dangerous territory. But to many…
For decades, the politics of the Telugu states were a closed club — dominated by regional satraps and sustained by welfare populism and caste arithmetic. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), once dismissed as a northern import, has now stormed into this once impregnable arena, changing the tone, texture, and trajectory of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana…
It’s election season again — that time when suddenly every political party discovers the existence of “minorities.” And by minorities, of course, they mean only one community — Muslims. The rest, like Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, or Parsis, might as well be invisible. Their votes apparently don’t come in bulk or swing margins. Political mathematics,…
Why Bihar’s Minority Math May Seal NDA’s Fate — Not INDIA’s As Bihar heads toward its crucial assembly polls, all eyes are on the state’s most unpredictable vote bank — the 18% Muslim electorate. The battle lines are drawn, alliances are firm, and the question echoing through Patna’s humid air is deceptively simple: Who’ll split…
Pakistan is visibly rattled. India’s announcement of Exercise Trishul — a large-scale tri-service military operation off the Gujarat coast and in the sensitive Sir Creek sector — has triggered unease in Islamabad at a time when the country is grappling with multiple crises on its own soil. For India, the drill is routine strategic preparedness….
When the news broke that a Delhi High Court judge’s residence had turned into a vault of burnt currency, India didn’t just see a fire—it saw the moral decay of an institution once revered as the last bastion of integrity. Instead of ordering a police investigation, the Chief Justice of India chose an “internal inquiry”….
For over a decade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has redefined what it means to lead a nation — not just from the corridors of power, but from the frontlines of service. Every Diwali, while most leaders in the past preferred the comfort of official residences or political gatherings, Modi has chosen to spend the festival…
Bihar’s political script for 2025 seems to be writing itself — and the ending increasingly appears to favour the NDA. While confusion and friction continue to dominate the Congress-led INDI alliance, the Nitish Kumar–Narendra Modi combine has already moved into campaign overdrive with clarity, coordination, and confidence. The contrast could not be starker. On one…
